Space-Based Missile Defense Is Still Practical Subsequent administrations canceled Reagan’s efforts, which remain dormant. Aug. 21, 2024 12:12 pm ET Share Resize ...

I strongly support your editorial “The Lessons of Israeli Missile Defense” (April 16) and Daniel Henninger’s “Reagan Just Saved Israel” (Wonder Land, April 18) and dispute the letter by ...

Aim for bipartisan support: Reagan’s unveiling of SDI stirred sharp partisan anger. A decade later, Democrats were still lambasting SDI. In 1993, the secretary of defense, Les Aspin, bragged of “ ...

Gayle Anderson explores the new exhibition “STAR WARS AND SDI: DEFENDING AMERICA AND THE GALAXY.” SDI, Strategic Defense Initiative, was a President Ronald Reagan plan to develop a space-based ...

Given the 360-fold reduction in space launch costs (and likely 1,000-fold), and the massive increase in electronic capacity, Trump’s Golden Dome could realize Reagan’s SDI dreams.

People mocked the Gipper by nicknaming SDI “Star Wars,” but, as usual, Reagan was way ahead of his time. As part of his successful quest to destroy Soviet communism, he always had a dream that each ...

With those words, President Reagan launched the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). President Donald Trump hopes to fulfill Reagan’s vision.

Golden Dome recalls Reagan’s concept for SDI to defend the U.S. against long-range ballistic missiles. It was seen as futuristic or infeasible.

SDI can save lives by killing weapons, not people. President Reagan won the Cold War against the Soviet Communist Russians without firing a shot because of Star Wars. David Mumma Kihei ...

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